Hillman Foundation Announces 2017 Innovation Grants
Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation announces $1.6 million in new awards to support nursing driven innovation for vulnerable populations.
To accelerate the development and scale of forward thinking nursing-driven models of care, the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation (RAHF) has added two new grant programs to its portfolio of Innovation grants and announced today that it will award more than $1.6 million in funding to seven projects to improve the health of vulnerable populations.
The two new grant programs will bookend the Foundation’s flagship Hillman Innovations in Care Program (HIC) to create a pipeline for innovation. The first of the new grants—the Hillman Emergent Innovation Program—will provide funding for early-stage prototype and pre-evidence work. The second program—the Hillman Innovation Dissemination Program—will support scaling efforts for an established, evidence-based nursing-driven model of care ready for national dissemination....